[kewlkreator]

Hello. In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use cookies in Javascript.

Cookie?
A cookie is a small text file that contains information that can be written/read by a website. These text files may be no larger than 4kb or about 4000 characters.

Write a Cookie
To write a cookie, we can use the document.cooke statement. Lets write a cookie that stores a username:

function writeCookie() {
var username = prompt("Whats your username?", "kewlkreator");
//Gets the username
var cookieContent = "username=" + escape(username);
//Escapes the username to remove any illegal characters
document.cookie = cookieContent;
//Sets the cookie
}

Read a Cookie
To read a cookie, I'm gonna split the cookie into an array.

function readCookie() {
var wholeCookie = document.cookie;
//Grabs the whole cookie
var splitCookie = wholeCookie.split("=");
//Splits the whole cookie into an array called splitCookie
var username = splitCookie[1];
//Where splitCookie[0] is "username", splitCookie[1] holds our string
var username = unescape(username);
//Unescapes the username
alert("Your username: " + username);
//Alerts the username
}

Reset a cookie
To reset a cookie, pass the new content through a parameter like:

function setCookie(value1, value2) {
//Value 1 is the name of value2
//Value 2 is the content of value1
var cookieContent = escape(value1) + "=" + escape(value2);
//Escapes to remove all illegal characters
document.cookie = cookieContent;
}

So, to use this, we could call the function like setCookie(myname, kewl) this would set a cookie like:
document.cookie = myname=kewl

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If you want to read a site's cookie, enter into the address bar: java script:alert(document.cookie);

This will alert the cookie content!

Finished
Your done! Go forth my minions! Conquer the world of cookies!

--Kewlkreator